Chicha (Libre) rides again By Carolina Amoruso If the vintage chicha of Juaneco, los Destellos, et al., makes me smile, and Sonido Amazonica, by johnny-come-latelys Chicha Libre, gets me chuckling, then Canibalismo (Barbès Records), Libre’s latest offering, brings me to carcajadas. Chicha Libre is on a mission to spearhead a revival of Peru’s first homegrown pop genre and to take and keep it on the road. Libre is, in fact, a gaggle of guys with elected affinities--i.e., an embrace of chicha (the music) and old hat/new-fangled electronica—though not one of them is Peruvian. The lineup comprises a venezolano, a mexicano, two franceses and 2 norte americanos. They came together at Barbès, a Brooklyn world music club, and pledged to make happy, wacky, rootsy music in a high-tech, low-tech way. The brew that Peruvian folk came to love as chicha in the late ‘60s and onward imported much of its sound: from Colombia’s cumbia; from Afro-Cuba’s primal and percussive rhythms; from Dick Da...